The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-27


oand together, not for crack-brained fanati-
clsIn, but for holy Christian reform / think
1t was IN 1893 that there went out from
Lucknow, India, under the sovereign the
greatest hunting party ttat was ever pro-
Jected. The.e were ten thousand armed
men in that hunting party. There were
camels, and horses, and elephants. On some
princes rode, and royal ladies, under ex-
qulslte housings, and five hundred coolies
waited upon the train, and the desolate places
OF India were invaded by this excursion, and
the rhinoceros, and deer, and elephant fell
under the stroke of the sabre and bullet.
After awhile the party brought back tro-
phleS worth $1,000 rupees, having left the
wilderness of India CHASTITY with the SLAIN
bodies of wild beasts Would to God that
instead of here and there a straggler going
out to fight these great monsters Of iniquity
in our country, the million membership of
our churches would band together and hew
in twain these great crimes that make the
land frightful with their roar, and are
tattening upon the bodies and souls
OF immortal men. Who is ready
for such party as that! Who Will be a
mighty hunter for the Lordl
remark again: II you want to be sue
cessful in spiritual hunting, you need not
only to bring down the game but bring it
in. Il think one of the most beautiful pic
lures of Thorwaldsen is his Autumn It
represents sportsman coming home and
standing under grapevine He has a staff
over his shoulder, and on the other end of
that staff are hung rabbit and brace of
birds. Every hunter brings home the game
No one would think of bringing down a
reindeer or whipping up a stream for trout
and letting them lie in the woods. Ateven-
tide the camp is adorned with the treasures
of the forest-beak, and fin, and antler
II you 60 out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the arrow
OF the Gospel, but bring them into the
Church of God, the grand home and en-
campment we have pitched this side the
skies. Fetch them in, do not let them lie
ont in the open field. They need our prayers
and sympathes, and help. That is the
meaning of the Church of God-help. o
ye hunters for the Lord! not only bring
down the game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well that
for seven years he never went indoors, what
enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunt
ing for immortal souls If Domitian prac-
ticed archery until he could stand boy
down in the Roman amphitheatre, WITH a
hand out, the fingers outstretched, and then
the King could shoot an arrow between the
fingers without wounding them to what
drill and what practice ought not we to
subject ourselves in order to become spirit
ual archers and mighty hunters before
the Lordp But let me say, you will never
work any better than you pray. The old
archers took the bow, put one end Of il
down beside the foot, elevated the other end,
and it was the rule that the bow should be
just the size of the archer; ifit were Just
his size, then he would go into the battle
with confidence. Let me say that your
power TO project good in the world will cor
respond exactly to your spiritual stature.
In other words. the first thing in prepara-
.tion for Christian work is personal conse-
Grafton.
"0h for closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me TO the Lamb"
| am sure that there are some here who at
some time have been hit by the Gospel ar
row. You felt the wound of that convic
ton, and you plunged into the world deeper
just as the stag, when the hounds are after
it, plunges into Scroon Lake, expecting in
that way to escape Jesus Christ is on your
track to-day, impenitent man; not in wrath,
but in mercy. Oh, ye chased and painting
souls here is the stream of Gods mercy and
salvation, where you may cool your thirst.
Stop that chase of sin to day. By the red
fountain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, bid you stop. There is mercy for
you-mercy that pardons; mercy that
heals; everlasting mercy. is there in all
this house anyone who can refuse the offer
that comes from the heart of the dying Son
of Godl
There is a forest in Germany, a place they
call the Deer Leap"-two crags about
eighteen yards apart, between a fearful
chasIn. This is called the Deer Leap be
cause once hunter was on the track of a
10 .f boz hero
was no escape for it from the pursuit of the
hunter, and in utter despair it gathered it
self up and, in the death agony, attempted
to lump across. OF course, il fell, and
was dashed on the rocks far beneath. Here
is a path TO heaven. IL is plain; it is safe.
Jesus marks it out for every man to walk in.
But here is a man who says: 81 won't walk
in that path; / will take my own way"
He comes on up until he confronts the
chasm that divides his soul from heaven.
Now, his last hour has come, and he resolves
that he will leap that chasm. from
the heights Of earth to the heights of
heaven. Stand back, now, and give him
full swing, for no soul ever did that success
fully. Let him try. Jumpl Jumpl He
misses the mark, and he goes down, depth
below depth, destroyed without remedy. y
Menl angels! devilsl what shall we call
that place of awful catastrophe! Let it be
known forever as 1.-THE Sinners Death
Leap"
1t is said that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by three armies Of the
Saracens in the Pass of Roncesvalles, his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness
seized trumpet and blew IL with such ter
rife strength that the opposing army reeled
back with terror; but at the third blast Of
the trumpet il broke in two. | see your
soul fiercely assailed by all the powers of
earth and hell / put the mightier trumpet
of the Gospel 10 my lips and blow il three
times. Blast the first-"Whosoeve will,
let him come" Blast the second-"Seek we
the Lord while He may be found" Blast the
third-"Now is the accepted time; now Is
the day of salvation" Does not the host Of
your sins fall back But the trumpet does
not. like that of Roland, break in two. As
il was handed down to us from the lips Of
our fathers. we hand it down TO the lips of
our children, and tell them 10 sound it when
we are dead, that all the generations Of men
may know that our God Is pardoning God,
a sympathetic God, a loving God; and that
more to Him than the anthems Of heaven,
more TO Him than the throne on which he
sits, more TO Him than are the temples of
celestial worship, is the joy Of seeing the
wanderer putting his hand on the door latch
of his Fathers house. Hear IL, all ye ma
tions! Bread for the worst hunger. Medi-
cine for the worst sickness. Light for the
thickest darkness. Harbor from the worst
storm.
DR.. Prime, in his book Of wonderful in
terest entitled "Around the World de-
scribes tomb in India Of marvellous archi-
lecture Twenty thousand men were TWEEN